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Transport System Strategic Resilience

Shelley Tucker Ministry of Transport, Resilience & Security Team

Roger Fairclough Ministry of Transport, Resilience & Security Team

Scope of these slides

• Introduction to resilience generally

• Concept of national resilience

• Resilience and Security team

• Strategic Resilience Project

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Why are we talking about resilience?

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The cost of disasters is growing and the portion absorbed by governments

and its citizens are even greater ...

Why are talking about resilience?

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Why are we talking about resilience?

We live in an age of uncertainty and rapid

change

• Nations face an increasingly complex range

of multi-faceted threats from a myriad of

sources.

• The risk is continually changing: evolving

geopolitical situation, non-state actors

(homegrown or overseas), the effect of

globalisation, climate adaptation, and

changing social geography.

• The concept of national security risk is very

different to what it was 20 years ago (let

alone 50 or 100 years ago).

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Social Resilience

Social capital

Health

Education

Welfare

Justice/protection

Economic Resilience

Economy

Businesses

Financial mgt

Insurance

Resilience of the Natural

Environment

Resource management

Land-use planning

Climate change adaptation

Resilience of the Built

Environment

Infrastructure

Buildings/housing

Urban growth/design

Engineering

Transport

Governance of Risk and Resilience

Leadership

Policy

Strategy

Coordination

Safety/security

Cultural Capital

Cultural values

Traditional knowledge/practice

Identity

Culture/heritage

Underpinning research, data, and assessment

Concept of National Resilience

Source: National Disaster Resilience Strategy under development (DPMC lead)

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Common Factors in Definitions of Resilience

• Understanding and anticipating changing

circumstances and potential disruption

• Ability to reduce, resist or withstand impacts

• Having survival/coping and recovery strategies

• Being capable, adaptable, resourceful, and

innovative

• Learning from experience and ‘building back better’

Anticipative(being ‘change

ready’)

Absorptive(persistence)

Adaptive(incremental

adjustment)

Transformative(transformational actions)

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Resilience and Security team

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• Responding to events

• Building longer-term resilience across the transport system

• Collaboration and engagement across the sector about transport system

resilience

Strategic Resilience Project

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• Focuses on exploring the concept of strategic resilience underpinned by the overarching theme – How do we deliver an adaptive integrated transport system that is resilient for the future?

• Pan sector agreed concept and understanding of resilience, including a longer-term view

• Increase recognition of people, community, business and end-users (including their contribution to resilience)

Components needed (sector level focus)?

• What is resilience

• Vision/outcomes

• Current and emerging risks/trends

• Roles & responsibilities

• Actions

Current state assessment and diagnosis (the ‘why’)

► Current risk management challenges and constraints

► Disaster risk

► Advantages and opportunities

Concept of Strategic Resilience

► What resilience is to us

► Outcomes desired

► Targets

Guiding principles of the Transport System approach to resilience (the ‘how’)

Roadmap of action (the ‘what’ and ‘when’)► Roadmap framework: principles vs short, medium, long term

► Sector roadmap

► Voluntary commitments

Measuring resilience and monitoring progress

Source: Adapted from National Disaster Resilience Strategy under

development

Strategic Resilience focus

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Transport System Resilience & Security

• Resilient is something you are, not something you do

• Seeking articles/exemplars of good practice/innovation

• Advocate and work together - take the opportunity, join the “movement”

Contact: Shelley Tucker, Manager Resilience & Security, s.tucker@transport.govt.nz

Roger Fairclough, Lead Strategic Resilience Project, roger.fairclough@transport.govt.nz

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